week 11 dq response

This class reminds me to a huge amount about a young teenage pregnant African American female who was arrested about 10 months before Rosa Parks. She was arrested for the same exact crime Rosa was arrested for.

However, the variables were entirely different. One Martin Luther King Jr the year before had not broken out as a leader in the civil rights movement yet. He was still just a preacher in his church, his charisma and charm were still mostly being used inside his church. 6 months later, he broke out and began to rise as a new leader of the movement.

Two the young lady was a teenage, unemployed, single, and pregnant; define socially unacceptable. That young lady was the definition of why those against the civil rights movement felt they had permission to be nasty to those of African descent. Rosa was an adult, with a steady job, with steady relationships, etc. and Martin was present.

For some to interact with society, you have to be all but as pure as the driven snow in behavior or those against you will use any and all things they can find to attack you and your character. Anything to distract attention from the facts of the case. Same applies, many fold over, to scholastics, if you want to introduce a new idea, you best be the definition of what the society has come to accept as “good behavior” or you will have no chance at all of being listened to. In a classroom, the behaviors from teachers and students is not all that different from the civil rights movement. Offending either side is extremely easy, the reactions to being offended are strictly enforced.

That dynamic requires a huge amount of understanding and staying strictly within the confines of unwritten social rules.